I am in my first visit to Moscow.
Fascinating country, city and media market.
Most important than anything else. This is a land for opportunities and entrepreneurs.
Great advantage: big market, media consolidation underway, and booming online ventures.
Russia becomes with India and China the new big media market after USA and Europe.
If you are coming to the WAN Newspaper Congress in June take time for pleasure but don’t forget business.
Russia needs more than ever great foreign media partners, not just the ones that came here thinking that exporting the eastern formulas con content and management were going to work, and failed, including the most powerful American and European conglomerates that came as conquerors more than as partners.
The INNOVATION recent expansion in these former communist markets show how eager are these countries to start new media business or reinvent old media ones but just with one condition: real open minded partnership.